Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-26
BASEBALL NOTES.

Cnlcago is gong TO Sign feultt, OF NaUer.
bury, catcher
Right Fielder Polhemus, of the indianapolis
team, has been laid off
Fogerty is gradually reaching the high
water mark in batting.
Charles Daniels, manager OF the Hartfords,
will resume his old position as umpire.
The Hartfords forfeit $3.50 by disbanding
1t would have cost pretty nearly 81 800 to
have kept on.
Hecker's fielding average at first base, $50,
is the best average held by any player in the
Louisville team.
Buffalo has filed an application to fill the
first vacancy in the American association
ditto Milwaukee.
Jimmy" Peoples, the winning catcher of
the Brooklyns, is doing excellent work at first
base for that team.
Pitcher Mccormick has lost more games
than any other league pitcher this season, the
number being seventeen.
The New Yorks have tried twenty -one, De-
troits twenty Phladelphias nineteen, In
dianapolis eighteen players this season.
Pitcher Shreve, of the Baltimores, and
johnson, the Hartford right fielder have
been signed by Manager FOCAL, of the Indian
apolis team
Manager Schmez is already at work trying
to arrange fall exhibition games for Cincin-
natl with Detroit, Chicago, New York, Bos-
ton and the other league clubs.
John Ward, of the New York club, has
been spoken of in connection with the Ameri-
can association presidency. He would doubt
less be good man for the office
The Lincoln (Neb) team contains three of
the men who were blacklisted in 1884 for
jumping to the Union association. They are
Dolan, Dave Rowe and Orator" Shaeffer
Hatfield, the Hoboken lad whom Manager
Spence, of the Portlands scooped up, has
stolen 100 bases He also leads the New Eng
land team in run getting, having scored 113.
President Hart, of the New Orleans associ-
alton, believes the Southern league will be
stronger next season than this, and that all
the large southern cities will be in except Sa-
vannab.
The base running of the Kentucky club is
led by Pete Browning, who has Sc to his
credit. The Gladiator has also made 15S
base hits this season, which tops the Associa-
ton record.
The Louisville batteries are dubbed as fol-
lows: Hecker and Cook, the head battery
Chamberlain and Cross, the Scientific bat
terry and Ramsey and Kerins, the "dyna-
mite battery
Since Hughes, of the Newarks, was hit on
the head by pitched ball. his effectiveness
as a pitcher has been greatly impaired, and
the club has been meeting with constant de-
feat ever since.
Pitcher Shaw, of the Jersey City club, re-
sembles his namesake of the league If
allowed a good rest he pitches phenomenal
game, but if put in three times week he is
batted numerically.
The ministers Of Brooklyn take great in
terest in baseball and many of the most prom
inent divines can daily be seen at the games
in that city. Most of them are hard losers
They want to see the Brooklyns win all the
time
Johnny Ward ranks pretty well as a base
runner. He can do about eleven seconds
His skill in base running lies in good starts
and slides. About four years ago Ward
while in California, beat Tom Brown in q
race. Brown, however, was not running fast
then.
Jersey City people feel very proud of the
members of the sem-professional club which
existed there in 1885. Hughes is making g
great record for himself with Newark. Cuff
was lately with New York. Burns, who i.
now out of the baseball profession, played
first base with Baltimore Mattimore is witt
New York and Fields with Pitrsburg
President Stern, of the Cleveland club
says that crowds at the American association
grounds are officially overestimated. He say,
that on Decoration day in Baltimore, while
the official count given out was Is, 200 people
the Cincinnati club was paid its share of re
ceipts on the basis of few over 1000 admis
sions. Here is a discrepancy of over 100 pei
cent
The New York team which will start fo
California early in November will be as fol
lows: Kelly, right field; Brown, catcher
Tim Keefe, pitcher; Connor first base; Dan
Richardson, second base; Denny, third base
Ward short stop; Ewing, left field, and Gore
center. Most of these players are stranger
to the Pacific coast, although Ward playet
as pitcher when there before.
The Brooklyn club of 1883 will contain
many new members. All the old timber will
players will be signed by the management
At this period it can be readily seen by thos
who take interest in baseball that it would b
inadvsable to even hint where the new play
ers are coming from, or to state what mem
bers Of the present team are to be released.
The suit of Roseman, center fielder of tn
Metropolitan Baseball club, against the pre-
| prietors of the Athletic club has been settled
Roseman was released very summarily by tn
! Athletics, and he claimed whole years sal
airy, which was laughed at by Lew Simmon
q Co. The case of Roseman was put in tn
| hands Of a lawyer and the Athletics, scent
ing a defeat, made an offer to compromise
which was accepted. Roseman gets abou
! 81 600,
GREENROOM GOSSIP.